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A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest…A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest…
A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulness of a stinted liturgy and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keys: tending to satisfy the doubtful, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulnesse of a stinted liturgie and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keyes: tending to satisfie the doubtfull, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.
Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel printer to the University of Cambridge for Edward Brewster, 1640Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel printer to the Universitie of Cambridge for Edward Brewster, 1640
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but nothing is so contrary to the church as schism and departure.1 This matter I will shut up with the saying of Zaga Bishop of Ethiop, and ambassador of Prester John: It is a miserable thing that Christian strangers should be so sharply reproved, as enemies, as I have been here; and other things which concern not the faith. But it should be far more convenient to support all Christians, be they Grcaeians, be they Armenians, be they Ethiopians, be they of any one of the seven Christian churches, with charity and love of Christ, and to permit them to live and converse amongst other Christian brethren without any injury, because that we are all infants of one baptism, and do hold truly the true faith. The conclusion is, That the external communion of the church in public worship is not to be forsaken for some faults, neither fundamental nor noxious, which may be espied in her Liturgy.
but nothing is so contrary to the church as schisme and departure.1 This matter I will shut up with the saying of Zaga Bishop of Aethiope, and embassador of Prester John: It is a miserable thing that Christian strangers should be so sharply reproved, as enemies, as I have been here; and other things which concern not the faith. But it should be farre more convenient to support all Christians, be they Grcaeians, be they Armenians, be they Aethiopians, be they of any one of the seven Christian churches, with charity and love of Christ, and to permit them to live and converse amongst other Christian brethren without any injurie, because that we are all infants of one baptisme, and do hold truly the true faith. The conclusion is, That the externall communion of the church in publick worship is not to be forsaken for some faults, neither fundamentall nor noxious, which may be espied in her Liturgie.
- 1See Calvin. epist. 379. & Instit. lib. 4. cap. 10. §. 22. Damian a Goes, De moribus Aethiop.